ABSTRACT

This clinical workbook stresses the details of sound clinical practice, invites the reader to engage in exercises related to these practices as he or she goes through the volume, and offers practice in techniques that are essential to sound psychotherapy.

part One|104 pages

Understanding Unconscious Communication

chapter One|14 pages

Unconscious communication and madness

chapter Two|20 pages

How and why messages are encoded

chapter Three|31 pages

Decoding disguised messages

chapter Four|18 pages

Analysing the therapist’s interventions

chapter Five|18 pages

Decoding the material from patients

part Two|180 pages

Listening and Formulating

chapter Six|12 pages

The elements of listening

chapter Seven|15 pages

Indicators

chapter Eight|14 pages

Identifying the adaptive contexts

chapter Nine|14 pages

Adaptive contexts: manifest representations

chapter Ten|21 pages

Adaptive contexts: derivative representations

chapter Eleven|30 pages

Adaptive contexts: known implications

chapter Twelve|18 pages

Responses to interventions: encoded perceptions

chapter Thirteen|39 pages

Responses to interventions: reactions to perceptions

chapter Fourteen|12 pages

Some precepts of listening

part Three|216 pages

Intervening and Validating

chapter Sixteen|31 pages

Silence

chapter Eighteen|25 pages

Managing the ground rules of psychotherapy

chapter Nineteen|30 pages

Common errors in intervening